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You won’t become the next Masterchef by sitting in front of your telly and watching all the foodie programmes. What you need is experience in the hospitality industry, and we're really glad to see some of London's top names like Gordon Ramsay, The Ivy and The Wolseley recruiting talent from Gumtree.

While going through our numbers recently, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that the number of used car sales have increased by 143% over the last year on Gumtree. In fact, if our calculations aren’t wrong, we’re the UK’s number 1 site for peer-to-peer car sales.

What are you doing this Halloween? Apparently Michael Jackson tributes are tipped to be this year’s big Halloween theme, so expect to see plenty of Thriller-style zombies and one-gloved moonwalkers out on the night of the 31st.